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Friday, 26 October 2012

Stop me if you’ve heard this before – and yes, I know I have recently started an article
with the exact same opening – but a giant corporation’s employee
supposed to test new devices in the wild, who clearly doesn’t hold his
liquor, recently forgot a high-end unreleased smartphone in a bar.
This
time it’s not Apple, whose iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S prototypes were lost
in bars in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Of the two, the iPhone 4 has
been leaked to the public a couple of months ahead of its launch by the
folks at Gizmodo after having purchased it from the finder. This time it’s Google and the LG Nexus 4.
Just like with the iPhone 4, we also know everything there is to know about the LG Nexus 4 ahead of its announcement, but unlike in the iPhone 4 case, the LG Nexus 4 unit that was left in a bar is not the source of all the leaks.Wired
reports that the LG Nexus 4 was found at the 500 Club in San
Francisco’s Mission District at some point in late September by a bar
keep “after a slow Tuesday.” Jamin Barton realized this is not your
average Android phone when he saw the Google logo on the back of the
device and a “not for sale” sticker.

A
regular customer told Barton this is the Nexus 4, a yet-to-be-released
Google handset, and the same person called Google to tell them what has
happened. And apparently Google was pretty pissed off about the whole
incident:

“Dave” — Barton says he does not know
his full name — “sort of freaked out. ‘Google lost a phone,’ he told me.
‘You just got a guy fired…. The Google police are coming’”After that, the texts and phone messages from Dave became a torrent.“I
probably shouldn’t have shown it to him. But I did. He didn’t work for
Google, but Google had him pretty worked up. They told him he could be
an accessory or something.”

Google sent Brian
Katz, global investigations and intelligence manager at Google to
retrieve the lost device on the night of September 20, and he retrieved
it at around 1AM that night from a lawyer acquaintance of Barton. Katz
even offered a free phone to Barton with a likely retail value of $300,
if he kept quiet about the incident until after Google unveiled it.

But Barton sold his story to Wired,
which published it just hours ago, right alongside pictures of the
unreleased handset that were taken when the device was found.
In
fact, looking at one of the photos Barton took, we can clearly see that
this LG Nexus 4 was running a Jelly Bean version at the time of the
incident. At least that’s what that lock screen seems to suggests, given
that it’s so similar with the Nexus 7’s lock screen.
However,
it’s worth mentioning (again) that this isn’t the phone we’ve seen in
crystal clear photos posted all over that Byelorussian site that got
early access to it – and even posted a pre-release review of the handset.
One
of the main conclusions of this story is that Google was very desperate
and pissed off to have lost a phone like that. Which means it’s even
more upset to see all the LG Nexus 4 that hit the web in the weeks
following the incident – it’ll certainly be interesting to see whether
the company will mention any of the leaks, or even this incident, during
the October 29 event.

Of
course, the other more important take away is that if you’re in charge
of testing unreleased handsets in the wild, you may want to stay out of
bars, or if you go there, at least learn how and what to drink to make
sure such things don’t happen.